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carlos kok wrote:
quoted 24 lines I was in the pub last night, and a guy asked me for a light for his
> I was in the pub last night, and a guy asked me for a light for his
> cigarette. I suddenly realised that there was a demand here and money to be
> made, and so I agreed to light his cigarette for 10 pence, but I didn't
> actually give him a light, I sold him a license to burn his cigarette. My
> fire-license restricted him from giving the light to anybody else, after
> all, that fire was my property. He was drunk, and dismissing me as a loony,
> but accepted my fire (and by implication the licence which governed its
> use) anyway. Of course in a matter of minutes I noticed a friend of his
> asking him for a light and to my outrage he gave his cigarette to his
> friend and pirated my fire! I was furious, I started to make my way over to
> that side of the bar but to my added horror his friend then started to
> light other people's cigarettes left, right, and centre! Before long that
> whole side of the bar was enjoying MY fire without paying me anything.
> Enraged I went from person to person grabbing their cigarettes from their
> hands, throwing them to the ground, and stamping on them.
>
> Strangely the door staff exhibited no respect for my property rights as
> they threw me out the door.
>
> --Ian Clarke
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